The Leadership Show

Andy Peck talks to Katherine Brown a small group leadership trainer with the Fusion Student Movement, about that all important business of leading a small group: what’s important? What’s not? And how do you build community? 

Have you realised that the Nativity plays in many local churches actually have little to do with the birth of Jesus as depicted in the Gospels? David Instone-Brewer Research Fellow at Tyndale House, Cambridge, tackles some of the mythical elements surrounding the incarnation and suggests a new way and better way of understanding what was really going on. 

Andy Peck chats with Tim Alford,  the National Director of LIMITLESS, the youth and children's movement of the Elim Pentecostal Churches in the UK and Ireland about how things are in the youthwork scene and how local churches might start groups designed to reach and disciple young people.

Andy Peck talks with Steph Cox, Head of Children’s work at Eastgate Church, Gravesend, who believes God is looking to empower children as He enables her, including in supernatural ways. She shares what this meant in terms of her vision for the children in her group 

What kind of leadership should Christians utilise in the public sphere, where most are lukewarm or hostile to Christianity? Joanna Williamson tells Andy Peck about an MA in Public Leadership which helps Christians tease out the main issues, and understand what public leadership and public theology is and learn to lead with integrity and grace, wherever God places them.

Marg grew up in a Dutch Reformed Church in Australia where only men were allowed to lead. But she discovered that there was a better way to read the scriptures that seem to deny women from leading and preaching in mixed congregations. She outlines to Andy Peck an interpretation that gives full weight to the Bible’s authority while freeing women everywhere to serve in the ways God intends, which fo...

God led Andrew to lay down his music career for a season. He shares how he was led to renovate properties, but God had a renovation of the heart and a restoration of a stately home as part of his agenda. A remarkable story of God’s faithfulness leading to a new song for the post-covid era 

How do you decide whether differences with another Christian, church or charity are so great that you can’t work together? How do we manage if we diasagree about creation, or the role of women or same sex marriage? Jonathan Lamb believes we can engage in what is known as ‘theological triage’ outlined in his new book entitled Essentially One: Striving for the Unity God Loves and unpacked on the sho...

Can two charities merge without one swallowing up the other. ‘All We Can’ now work closely with ‘Y-Care International’ in a novel merger that could be a template for others. Steve Adams, director of Public Engagement for the two charities explains how they came together and what leaders can learn from the enterprise. 

Dave Burke’s church was overrun with people in various forms of emotional distress, so as senior pastor, he got some training and now equips people online and in person with Mental Health First Aid Training. He explains how we can equip others ourselves 

Bill Woolsey, who heads up Five:Two which provides training and coaching for people starting kingdom-focused businesses explains the key ingredients for being ensuring a successful start-up.

Dr. Pete Carter looks at how we understand equality as Christians, and how it works out in male-female roles, racial tensions and the welcoming of those from the LGBTQ ‘community’. 

Leadership carries a degree of authority but Jesus taught that it was a different kind to that wielded by non believers. Dr Pete Carter, a medical doctor and a church leader at Eastgate Church, Gravesend explains how you can understand the kind of authority you have in Christ. 

Andy Hickford had been at a church for 23 years as senior pastor in Woking, moved to a church in Torquay with a mandate for change and within a year, covid has struck. Andy thinks churches need to think carefully before returning things to the way they were, and shares what he has learned from managing change 

The pediatrician explains how she left the NHS to learn supernatural pediatrics in Mozambique with Iris Global and is now called to equip Christians to know wholeness and healing in Christ back in the UK

Ian Henderson is the founder of the Naked Truth Project, a charity that aims to 'open eyes and free lives from the damaging impact of porn'. He explains why helping people in this area should be a part of every local church’s ministry 

How can we understand the challenge of uniting the whole church whatever the racial background? Clare outlines her perspective as a daughter from the Windrush generation and goes on to explain a new course designed to help people unite their faith and leadership

What kind of character do we need to serve as a leader? A businessman who heads up Cotswold Fayre, shares his belief that developing character needs to be the first concern of every leader, wherever they lead in his book: ‘The Fourth Bottom Line’: flourishing in the new era of compassionate leadership 

How can churches and charities help communities to rebuild post-pandemic? Roger heads up the Movement for Recovery, based in the Greater Manchester area and believes Christians need to be at the forefront of what happens next in the UK 

How do we help ourselves and those we lead deepen our faith? Rick Hill, the Discipleship & Leadership Development Officer for the Presbyterian Church explores what we need to focus on

The youth leader who helps young people navigate life through developing mentoring relations, shares how you can mentor others  

The director of Advocacy and Public Affairs of Open Doors UK shares the inspiration of the many church leaders worldwide who are persecuted for their faith.

Andy Peck talks to Marie Aitken. Her day job is with Alpha UK as Head of England, overseeing church engagement and relationship management for the country but she is also the founder of a growing online community for emerging female leaders called Girl Can Daily. With women's supposed 'emancipation' have things really changed very much?

A leader with the Global Leadership Network on how leadership thinking changed the church he was serving in British Columbia, Canada and how we can take leadership teaching and make it relevant anywhere in the world

Steve Addison believes an understand of the narrative of scripture inevitably leads leaders to be missional in their outlook and explores this in his new book: Your part in God’s Story: Genesis to Revelation in 40 days